A familiar US Open face has been elected USTA President.
The USTA today announced its new slate of Board of Directors, including the election of Dr. Brian Hainline as USTA Chairman of the Board and President.
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The new Board has been elected to a two-year term that begins on January 1, 2023.
The 2023-2024 USTA Board of Directors:
Dr. Brian Hainline of the USTA Midwest Section has been elected to serve as the USTA Chairman of the Board and President. This is his fifth term on the USTA Board of Directors, where he mostly recently served as the First Vice President during the 2021-2022 term. Hainline previously served on the USTA Board of Directors as Director at Large in 2007-08, where he was Board Liaison to the Community Tennis Council. He returned to serve as Director at Large in 2017-18, where he was Board Liaison to the Player Development Council; as Vice President in 2019-20, where he was Vice Chair of the Budget Committee and Board Liaison to the Sectional Associations, and as First Vice President in 2021-22.
Hainline played No. 1 singles and doubles in his senior year at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa (philosophy) before going on to earn his M.D. at the University of Chicago and his neurology specialty at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Hainline was a founding member of the USTA Sport Science Committee and has been a member of the International Tennis Federation Sport Science and Medicine Commission since 1993, serving as chair since 2003.
He was the Chief Medical Officer of the US Open Tennis Championships for 16 years and held the same title for the USTA for four years. Currently, Hainline is the NCAA Senior Vice President, Sport Science Institute and Chief Medical Officer. He is the first person to hold this title in the history of the NCAA. Hainline is an accomplished author, having authored/edited nine books (including Positioning Youth Tennis for Success) as well as numerous chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He is actively involved as a volunteer in sports medicine organizations, having served as co-chair of the 2016 International Olympic Committee Consensus Meeting on Pain Management in Elite Athletes, and was also co-chair of the IOC Consensus Meeting on Mental Health in Elite Athletes. Hainline also is a member of the Expert Panel on the 2022 6th International Consensus Meeting on Concussion in Sport, and served as chair of the first-ever international…
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